Operation Paperback will hold its annual fundraiser during Manchester Township's Summer Fun Festival.
The used book sale is from 3 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at Cousler Park at Church and Greenbriar roads. There also will be silent auction items and sponsorship boxes.
Funds are used for postage and packaging to send books to U.S. military personnel throughout the world.
For details call 854-6620.
The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will celebrate its 27th Annual Book Sale with great bargains on some 75,000 used books.
The sale will be held Aug. 13-16 at 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster,
Home-cooked food will also be available. All proceeds support the historical society.
While you're there, stop in the museum to see "Decorated and Plain: A Mennonite and Amish Sampler," a display of Pennsylvania German arts in handcrafted furniture, fraktur, needlework and other artifacts.
For details, contact David Sauder at 717-393-9745 or usedbooks@lmhs.org.
Local author John Coulson will sign copies of his new book, "Hanover Raiders: Minor League Baseball in Hanover, Pennsylvania," from 6 to 8 p.m. July 31 at Guthrie Memorial Library-Hanover's Public Library, 2 Library Place.
To read more about his book, click here: http://www.yorkblog.com/yorktownsquare/2008/07/hanover.php .
Review by Joan McInnis
"War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq" By Richard Engel. Simon & Schuster, New York. c. 2008.
You know his face and voice from the NBC nightly news reports about the war in Iraq, and now Richard Engel has put his experiences on paper for a vivid and horrifying tale of what it has been like to cover the war since it began.
In the process the reader comes to know the man as well as the reporter and what toll
his coverage has exacted. His marriage ended in divorce; he narrowly escaped kidnapping, lost fellow reporters to sudden death, and had his hotel room blown up around him as a suicide bomber struck his hotel.
It was no wonder the constant violence led to burn out.
I've heard of Gordon Ramsay and think I even saw a segment of his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares some time ago.
Bleep this and bleep that. He was pretty mean.
Then shortly after Gloria posted a summary of "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen" (which you can read here) she let me borrow it, knowing I enjoy food and writing about it.
And I learned a little.
If you're planning to travel at all this summer, you may want to check out these books to help get you through the journey.
For more travel tidbits, tips and tales, visit Explorer's Backpack.
As part of my campaign to visit every York Library, I checked out the books on tape section at the attractive and easily accessible Red Land Community Library.
See see what I found there and to see a little library history to boot, visit York County libraries offer serendipity - and have done so for decades at York Town Square blog.
Voni Grimes recounts his long life in his autobiography "Bridging Troubled Waters."
Voni B. Grimes, respected community leader, has labored for months to write about his long life.
The result is a 90-page book with more than 20 photos of a life well lived.
For details, see: New book gives insight into community leader Voni B. Grimes at York Town Square blog.
Windsor's centennial book is a snapshot - well, hundreds of them - of small-town life in York County.
A 300-plus page history book packed with photos can tell much about a town.
This 100th-anniversary book of Windsor borough provides a busy side of a town that seemingly can best be described as sleepy.
For long post on this thick book, view: Windsor: Home of 'stately old houses that may appear to be miniature castles' at York Town Square.
You may be familiar with chef Gordon Ramsay from his Fox reality show "Hell's Kitchen."
Or you may have seen him on the BBC America hits "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" and "The F Word."
But you really don't know him. Not until you read his book, "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words and the Pursuit of Perfection."
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